so that the linux license makes it unlawful to distribute them under anything other than the GPL.
I don't see how that can ever be the case.
If I distribute something (closed source) that is dynamically linked against a certain GPL library, but I never distributed any GPL code, the GPL doesn't apply to me for that work, I need no authorization to distribute something that merely can potentially utilize a GPL program in a closely tied way.
Distributing the two together in any way would violate the GPL, such if they were statically linked or offered together.
We have a healthy sex life, why would I worry what others knew or didn't know about it?
Uh yeah. What if you didn't have a healthy sex life? What if your penis was 1 inch long? What if you got HIV from a gay hooker 3 years ago?
Your reply is inane. "I'm normal so I'm not afraid of people knowing my private stuff"... Well no shit. The normal stuff no one cares about, it's the private things that would be percieved as abnormal that are the problem.
Lack of privacy enforces conformity, shame, guilt and ostracision for those who don't conform, whether they can help it or not.
I don't feel comfortable even talking about it as long as there are a large chunk of people in jail for stupid things like the drug war. Not all criminals infringed on anyone else's rights.
Repeat after me, Linux will never be GPLv3. They would have to start over from scratch if they wanted to make a GPLv3 version of linux. It's simply not licensed that way and it never will be. I suspect some of the contributers are probably dead, and I'm sure dozens of others would be impossible to contact for permission to change the license.
You don't need to do all that to tamper with it. You just mount your disk under linux or whatever and replace ci.dll with one that always returns "yeah this file hashes OK". Could probably do it with a hex editor.
i.e., the way copy protection has been broken since the beginning of time. No cryptographically hard stuff needed.
DRM is fundamentally broken and there's no cryptographically hard way to secure it.
This feedback loop will perpetuate itself until some event or constraint tackles consumption growth in the exporters' side, or until the importers collapse from lack of new wealth to transfer. The former is the most likely scenario.
Do they really think the US and Europe will sit around feeding all their money to Saudi Arabia, and not do anything about it?
We have lots of alternative energy technology. None of it is very cost effective right now, because oil is cheap. If oil really did become that much more expensive that it was siphoning all the wealth away, we'd just start using alternatives.
Maybe his dream was to have people talk about him around the world, for a few minutes at least. Beats stamp collecting.
It's not much different than the guy with the 12 foot long fingernails or an olympic gold medalist.
The money doesn't drive people that accomplish extreme feats, it's just not a good enough motivation. Being noted in a history book somewhere is probably more important to them than being rich.
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What are you using, postscript level 1? Gimme a break! Those things haven't been a problem since PS level 2 was widely supported.
Then surely Wine is a deriviative work of MS Windows.
I'm not sure we'd even want the FSF to win on this one.
I'm not aware of any distinction in the GPL between kernel modules and applications.
so that the linux license makes it unlawful to distribute them under anything other than the GPL.
I don't see how that can ever be the case.
If I distribute something (closed source) that is dynamically linked against a certain GPL library, but I never distributed any GPL code, the GPL doesn't apply to me for that work, I need no authorization to distribute something that merely can potentially utilize a GPL program in a closely tied way.
Distributing the two together in any way would violate the GPL, such if they were statically linked or offered together.
We have a healthy sex life, why would I worry what others knew or didn't know about it?
Uh yeah. What if you didn't have a healthy sex life? What if your penis was 1 inch long? What if you got HIV from a gay hooker 3 years ago?
Your reply is inane. "I'm normal so I'm not afraid of people knowing my private stuff"... Well no shit. The normal stuff no one cares about, it's the private things that would be percieved as abnormal that are the problem.
Lack of privacy enforces conformity, shame, guilt and ostracision for those who don't conform, whether they can help it or not.
I don't feel comfortable even talking about it as long as there are a large chunk of people in jail for stupid things like the drug war. Not all criminals infringed on anyone else's rights.
Ever heard of a boot sector virus? It's not unprecedented.
Or the implications. "Rehabilitation" strikes at the entire concept of free will in humans.
Repeat after me, Linux will never be GPLv3. They would have to start over from scratch if they wanted to make a GPLv3 version of linux. It's simply not licensed that way and it never will be. I suspect some of the contributers are probably dead, and I'm sure dozens of others would be impossible to contact for permission to change the license.
You don't need to do all that to tamper with it. You just mount your disk under linux or whatever and replace ci.dll with one that always returns "yeah this file hashes OK". Could probably do it with a hex editor.
i.e., the way copy protection has been broken since the beginning of time. No cryptographically hard stuff needed.
DRM is fundamentally broken and there's no cryptographically hard way to secure it.
They are, it seems, ignorant of economics though.
This feedback loop will perpetuate itself until some event or constraint tackles consumption growth in the exporters' side, or until the importers collapse from lack of new wealth to transfer. The former is the most likely scenario.
Do they really think the US and Europe will sit around feeding all their money to Saudi Arabia, and not do anything about it?
We have lots of alternative energy technology. None of it is very cost effective right now, because oil is cheap. If oil really did become that much more expensive that it was siphoning all the wealth away, we'd just start using alternatives.
That article was stupid. MS was speculating that Adobe might file a suit against them for antitrust violations. It was just MS FUD.
Insects are good to eat. I've thought about raising crickets for food but my wife won't let me.
When you're making a cake, it's not OK to have even a little bit of dog shit mixed in the batter.
Sucks when you are on a date and your girl falls through the ground.
A lot of it may be fair use, but there's still a lot of outright infringement.
IANA is part of ICANN, and no one ignores them.
It's not the program you use to access the Internet. It's the program you use to access the web.
With such a low UID, I would have expected better.
Maybe his dream was to have people talk about him around the world, for a few minutes at least. Beats stamp collecting.
It's not much different than the guy with the 12 foot long fingernails or an olympic gold medalist.
The money doesn't drive people that accomplish extreme feats, it's just not a good enough motivation. Being noted in a history book somewhere is probably more important to them than being rich.
You can pay them through Checkfree instead I think.
I'm not fron Texas.
Or just pass a new law that is basically the same unconstitutional tripe with a slightly new spin, hoping it will pass the courts.
Congress is completely out of control. Vote every one of them out of there, except Ron Paul. He's mostly OK.
So Sony needs a guy to sit around with two robots and make fun of bad movies?
Isn't your fancy object just going to do the same thing in the end? Seems like equally valid solutions to me.
I bet it's relaxing to not have to think for yourself.